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In The Glass Cage, Pulitzer Prize nominee and bestselling author Nicholas Carr shows how the most important decisions of our lives are now being made by machines and the radical...

In this ground-breaking and compelling book, Nicholas Carr argues that not since Gutenberg invented printing has humanity been exposed to such a mind-altering technology. The Shallows draws on the latest...

The Internet is eroding our capacity for concentration and contemplation, chipping away at our ability to read and think deeply. In The Shallows, Nicholas Carr argues that every information technology,...

Expecting your first baby is wonderful, perplexing and at times downright terrifying. Behind the brave face, a lot of first-time dads can become confused and frustrated, and are often left...

The book titled Turncoat's Drum by the author Nicholas Carter. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Author: Jack Carr Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 544 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR The fourth thriller in the "so powerful, so pulse-pounding, so well-written" (Brad Thor, #1 New York...

Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: Fair Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxing Markings: Previous ownerSet against the tense backdrop of Napoleon's army encamped at Boulogne in...

Edition: 1st uk ed.,Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodMarkings: SignedCondition remarks: DJ: price clipped; some shelf wear with light rubbing. Pages: very small stain on book block; otherwise clean...

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Edward Hallet Carr is renowned as the historian of Soviet Russia, biographer of The Romantic Exiles, founder of the 'realist' approach to the study of International Relations and author of...

Penguin Classics relaunch The work of a young novelist at the height of his powers, NICHOLAS NICKLEBY is one of the touchstones of the English comic novel. Around the central...

Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: N/APages: Good Markings: No markingsThis handsome omnibus brings together three of Charles Dickens's most beloved and socially charged works, offering readers a sweeping encounter with the...

I went down into Yorkshire before I began this book, in very severe winter time which is pretty faithfully described herein. As I wanted to see a schoolmaster or two,...

Author: Barbara WintonFormat: Paperback, 126mm x 196mm, 240g, 304 pagesPublished: Little, Brown Book Group, United Kingdom, 2023The book that inspired major motion picture ONE LIFE, starring Sir Anthony Hopkins and...

Our hero confronts a large and varied cast, including Wackford Squeers, the fantastic ogre of a schoolmaster, and Vincent Crummles, the grandiloquent ham actor, on his comic and satirical adventures...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: YellowedFew names in twentieth-century fiction carry the weight and moral authority of John le Carré, and this handsome omnibus — collecting five of his...

Author: Charles DickensBinding: HardbackPublished: Michael Joseph., 1982Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Minor foxing to block, sun-faded spine and previous owner's name in FEP.The Illustrated...

Major Matthew Carr is a professional soldier who has served in Iraq and Afghanistan. When faced with a cancerous invasion of his body, Matthew used the expert training he learnt...

After the death of his father, Nicholas Nickleby becomes a schoolteacher in a boys' school in Yorkshire to support his family. There he sees injustices and cruelty and stands up...

Author: Charles DickensBinding: HardbackPublished: Ardis Books, 1111Condition:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCharles Dickens’s Complete Works: Nicholas Nickleby II continues the compelling saga of a young man’s journey through the often-cruel...

Condition remarks: Condition: Good to fair. Jacket: No dust jacket. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription. Thrust into the unforgiving machinery of Victorian London following...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: YellowedFew names in twentieth-century fiction carry the weight and moral gravity of John le Carré, and this definitive omnibus — complete and unabridged — gathers...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerAt the heart of one of the most turbulent centuries in English history stood Sir Edward...

The book that inspired major motion picture ONE LIFE, starring Sir Anthony Hopkins and Helena Bonham Carter . 'Remarkable' - Guardian Sir Nicholas Winton rescued 669 children from Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia...

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Winner of the Crime Fest HRF Keating Award'Not merely the conclusive homage to a compulsively fascinating character, but an insightful study into the biographical process itself' Nicholas Shakespeare'Now that he...

Winner of the Crime Fest HRF Keating Award'Not merely the conclusive homage to a compulsively fascinating character, but an insightful study into the biographical process itself' Nicholas Shakespeare'Now that he...

A gripping new novel set in the universe of John le Carre's most iconic spy, George Smiley, written by acclaimed novelist Nick Harkaway It is spring in 1963 and George...

A gripping new novel set in the universe of John le Carre's most iconic spy, George Smiley, written by acclaimed novelist Nick Harkaway It is spring in 1963 and George...

Edition: First ed.Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodAt the heart of Tudor England's political machinery stood Sir Nicholas Bacon, a figure whose shrewd legal mind and formidable administrative talents...

Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Good Markings: Previous ownerA chilling exploration of corporate paranoia and the erosion of privacy. Henry Haddock, an unattached and well-liked man, is suddenly...

Edition: 1st aus ed.,Condition remarks:Book: Fair Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxing , price clippedMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: prelims clipped.A masterwork of the classic locked-room...

A sophisticated thriller about a missing nuclear scientist - perfect for fans of Robert Harris, William Boyd and Charles Cumming 'A remarkable contemporary thriller... A triumph' WILLIAM BOYD A journalist...

Nicholas II, the last tsar of all the Russians, remains a haunting and enigmatic figure, surrounded by myth and speculation. As a young man he dreamed of travel, of seeing...

Edition: 4th pr.,Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Good Markings: No markingsCondition remarks: Boards - faded. DJ - chipped with some loss. Internally sound. A...

Condition remarks: Condition: Good. Jacket: Worn/faded, chipped and worn with some minor damage, edge wear visible; price clipped. Page Condition: yellowed. Markings: No visible markings. Binding: Appears intact. Stickers/Labels: None...

Author: Robert TittlerBinding: HardbackPublished: Jonathan Cape, 1976Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsNicholas Bacon: The Making Of A Tudor Statesman chronicles the remarkable ascent of a pivotal figure in...

Edition: bomcCondition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodIn the shadowy world of Cold War intelligence, A Perfect Spy stands as John le Carré's most searingly autobiographical work — a masterful...

THE SUNDAY TIMES No. 1 BESTSELLER WITH AN AFTERWORD BY JOHN LE CARR E 'Riveting, astounding . . . An unputdownable postwar thriller' Observer 'Irresistibly readable' Sunday Times 'Worthy of...

Edition: 1st uk ed.,Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Wear and tearPages: Good , price clippedMarkings: No markingsSet against the sultry, gaslit backdrop of nineteenth-century New Orleans, Papa Là-Bas is a historical...

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